User:Pixelguin

Modern Control Combos

Meterless Combos

Combo	Position	Damage	Difficulty	Notes
A[L ~ L]	Anywhere	1200	Assisted	Your only option for Donkey Kick off a light. Great for checking Drive Rush. Don't spam it otherwise - light Donkey Kick is -11 OB and you won't be anywhere near safe.
2L ~ 2L ~ 5L > 623H 2L ~ 2L ~ 5L > 6S	Anywhere	1690 1494	V. Easy	Your basic light confirm. Unlike Classic, Modern Ryu cannot confirm this string into Donkey Kick. Modern Ryu can focus entirely on confirming distance to the opponent and cancel into Shoryuken early without buffering.
2L ~ 2L ~ 2L > 4S	Anywhere	1214	V. Easy	Hooray! You get medium tatsu from your crouching light punch!
2M > 4S/2S	Anywhere	1076/1204	V. Easy	Though 2M combos to almost all versions of your specials on normal hit (including all your shortcut specials), focus mainly on these two. Donkey Kick is safer than Tatsu and leaves you open to pop a Denjin charge. Tatsu has great corner carry.
A[H ~ H] > 4S/623H A[H ~ H] > 4S/6S	Anywhere	1784/2260 1784/2064	V. Easy	Heavy Shoryuken is your highest damage meterless A[H] combo. Tatsu gives you corner carry and oki. You can start buffering the 623H motion immediately by holding forward for easy full damage.
5M, A[M] > 4S/2S/623H 5M, A[M] > 4S/2S/6S	Anywhere	1776/1904/2320 1776/1904/2096	Easy	A consistent combo that can be optimized for damage, corner carry, or a mostly safe Denjin charge. Since M.Ryu does not have Short Uppercut (4HP), this is Modern Ryu's highest damage meterless combo. A second 5M can be used in place of A[M] for +2f to the cancel window, but it is 1f less safe if blocked.
A[H ~ H, L ~ L]	Anywhere	2090	Easy	Thanks to Modern controls, you only have to do one link for this combo (and it still does full damage!). Light Donkey Kick gives you space to pop Denjin.
A[H ~ H, L] > 4S	Anywhere	1922	Easy	This Medium Tatsu ender does more damage compared to A[H ~ H] > 4S. However, the oki is worsened midscreen as a you can only dash forward or jab if they back rise.

Metered Combos

Combo	Position	Damage	Difficulty	Notes
PDR, 6MP, 5MP > 214MK/236MK/623HP	Anywhere	1920/2080/2320	Medium	This is a core part of your Drive Rush strike mixup, 2MK being the other.
Any Medium/Heavy Starter > 214PP > 214214P	Anywhere	2900-3800	Medium	Your basic route into level 2. You can charge Shin Hasho to level 2 if you release it as soon as it hits the second level of charge.
Any Medium/Heavy Starter > 236KK, 623HP	Midscreen	1980-2880	Medium	Midscreen combo extension. Replace Shoryuken with level 1 for more damage. Cancel Shoryuken to level 3 for even more.
Starter > 236KK > 214214P	Midscreen	2940-3840	Medium	Another route into level 2 that does a hair more damage.
(6HP, 5MP)/(5MP, 4HP) > 236KK, 4HK > 623HP	Midscreen	2600/2980	Hard	You can only squeeze in the 4HK if you end your starter really close to them. You can NOT cancel the 4HK into level 1. If you wanna spend super, you have to cancel into level 3.
Starter > 214KK, PDR, 5MP > 214MP, 623HP	Corner	2528-3550	Medium	Your basic OD+DR extension for extra damage in the corner. Can also be ended in supers after the OD Tatsu instead of doing the more complex DRC version.
5HP > DRC > 5HK > 5HP > DRC > 5HK > 5HP > 623HP > 236236K	Anywhere	5796	Easy	Very simple drive meter dump into level 3 that works anywhere on the screen. Useful as a punish starter or punish counter drive impact round ender.
Any Medium/Heavy Starter > DRC, 5HP, 4HP > 236HK, 623LP, 236236K	Corner	4505-5541	Hard	A high damage level 3 corner combo. It has a link between 5HP and 4HP, after Heavy Donkey Kick, and a tight cancel from Shoryuken into level 3.
jHP/jHK, 5HP > DRC, 5HK, 5HP > DRC, 5HP, 4HP > 236HK, 623LP, 236236K	Corner	6145	Hard	This is only possible on a jump-in, Shoryuken punish or stun. You can omit the j.HP and start with 5HP > DRC for 5909. If you are midscreen you simply cut out the Heavy Donkey Kick and Light Shoryuken and put in a Heavy Shoryuken to level 3.